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m i 'The Fort Mill Times. VOLUME 19?NO. 43, ~~ 7ull . ~ FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 9fi ion ~~ ~~ 1 11.3* PRR YT.AP GOVERNOR ASKS LEGISLATURE ^ TO INVESTIGATE COMMISSION Governor Blease sent to the General Assembly Tuesday afternoon a message which startled the legislators with an urgent demand for a thorough investigation of the dispensary winding-up commission. Numbers of specific transactions supposed by the governor to have been made by the commission are mentioned, with the insistent recommendation that each be carefully looked into. As to the commissioners, he asks, "How much per diem have they received for their services on the Sabbath day, particularly the chairman, and did he work any on that day?" Another question he asks: ' LI n ft 4 Vt/i n f f r\*?m n? r i 1 JLiao inc atiuiiicj ^cuciai icceived any money, and if so, by whom paid and for what?" Continuing, Governor Blease asks: "Did Clarke rebate the present commission?" Clarke was the representative of a Peoria, 111., concern that sold the State dispensary whiskies and admitted paying rebates to the old directorate. "How much more than $5,000 did Farnum pay and where is it?" Farnum was fined $5,000 in a criminal prosecution for alleged grafting k in State dispensary days. He was known as the "Beer King" R of Charleston. Asking why certain members ^ of the old dispensary directorate | have not been prosecuted, the governor adds: "What was the agreement had with ex-Governor John Gary Evans and ex-State Chairman H. H. Evans (the famous "Hub" Evans) for information given by them at a conference held in Atlanta with Attorney General Lyon and Attorney Felder?" As to Attorney Felder, who represented the commission, Governor Blease asks. "Why was he not indicted when it was known he represented a whiskey house?" Death of Mrs. S. L. Manson. Five little children are left motherless, a good wife is gone .beyond recall and a Christian woman has passed to her reward as a result of the death Monday afternoon at her home in Pineville, N. C., of Mrs. Viola Manson, wife of Mr. S. L. Manson. Mrs. Manson's death occurred after only a few days' illness. She was 32 years of age and as Miss Viola Walsh, of Chester county, was married to Mr. Manson about 12 years ago. Besides her husband and little children, the oldest of whom is 11 years, Mrs. Manson is survived by two sisters, Miss Bessie Walsh, of Chester, and Mrs. Carrie Drennan, of Richmond, Va. ' The funeral services were held at f n h Am t\ ir/iot Ai</lnir ?i vuc; uuiiiu jcatciuajr niuiiiiu^ ni 11 o'clock and the burial was in the Pineville cemetery. Whiskey for Personal Use Not Illegal. Holding that it is not unlawful to have whiskey in possession for personal use, even in the dry I counties, the supreme court of South Carolina Saturday reversed the finding of the circuit court in the case of Elias Bookard, convicted in Spartanburg county for alleged violation of the act of 1909. A new trial is ordered. The opinion is the first passed by the supreme court, on the section of the act of 1909, which prohibits "keeping in possession" of alcoholic liquors in dry counties. Circuit judges have held that the section applies to liquors for personal use. The supreme court reverses this, holding that if lawfully received, the liquor may be lawfully kept. jEfcv 10 curtail Ejection Lxpenses. Representative J. E. Beamguard, of York county, hasintron duced in the house of representaK. tives a bill to have one set of k commissioners and managers of Hggj&election for State and Federal HIMofTices. Mr. Beamguard says |B|Bthat his bill will greatly simplify HgVthe election machinery of the gjjp State besides saving thousands of dollars to the people in holding the elections every other year. Would Require Notice of Mills. State Senator Macbeth Young, of Union county, has introduced a bill which is designed, as the author says, to prevent the hardships to which cotton mill employes are not infrequently subjected by the mills shutting down without the employes being given any intimation of the fact that they would either be thrown out of employment by remaining where they were or would find it necessary to go elsewhere to secure work. Senator Young's bill provides that all employers who require a notice of the purpose to quit their employ from the operatives employed by them give notice to their employes of shutting down. The bill provides that the employers must post in every room of the mill or ; hiiilHincr nof lo?c f-l-itin fin <1htc i ? ? v?vr unjo before the date proposed to shut down a notice to that effect. Failure to comply with the terms of the act would be punishable by a fine not exceeding: $5,000 and the company would be liable to such damages as the employes might suffer for the failure to comply. York Boys' Corn Club. A meeting of the York County Boys' Corn club was held at Winthrop college Saturday. About 40 boys were present and quite a number of the boys' fathers were present. President Johnson welcomed the club to the college. Prof. Niven then discussed and illustrated the best method of seed corn testing. Several of the foremost farmers of the county gave the boys a few words of advice and encouragement. More than 100 ears of corn were on exhibition by the boys, and prizes were awarded for the first, second and third best ten ears. The boys decided that they would become a real organization by electing officers. This was deferred until the next meeting, which will be at Yorkville on February 25. 1911. After the i club adjourned Prof. Niven gave a spraying demonstration on the back campus and the boys and men seemed to be especially pleased with it. Newnham Succeeds Lindsay. At the annual meeting in Co! lumbia Tuesday night of the i National Guard Association of ' South Carolina, Governor Blease j announced that he would appoint . Col. Chas. Newnham. of Columl bia, for disbursing officer of the I National Guard of the State to | succeed Col. John R. Lindsay, of : Yorkville. Col. Newnham was an unsuccessful candidate for adjutant general in the Democratic primary last summer. Maj. W. B. Moore, of Yorkville, was elected president of the National Guard association. The Farm of the Future. Under the caption of "The Passing of the Man With the Hoe." Edward A. Rumeley discourses in The World's Work for January the wonderful change in farm work which is being affected with modern machinery. He makes the statement that to plow five square miles the farmer walks the distance around the world this Dloddinir toil to be ended by machines that will use the power stored in one acre of potatoes?alcohol ? to plow 200 acres. He makes this prophesy of the future of butter manufacturing: and the work of the farm household, which is, to say the least, interesting to contemplate: "The farmer's wife will need but to turn a wheel, throw a switch, twist a stop-cock and be saved her hardest work. Butter will again be made on the farm and not in the factory. The motor will run the cream separator and churn and dispense with the labor of the milk cellar and its endless array of pans and crocks to be washed. It will give new speed to her sewing machine. On Wednesday, 'sweepincdav.' it will savp ViooiiK and strength with a vacuum cleaner. It will run her washing < machine and mangle. Through ; a dynamo, in the electric fan and ; flat-iron, it will bring her blessed : relief from the fiery heat of the range on ironing day. It will be | a ready helper in the kitchen. All j this takes no account of the, promise of new inventions." JIM TILLMAN SAYS IT'S A LIE, HE'S NOT POVERTY-STRICKEN Relative to an Edgefield, S. C., special to the New York Herald concerning Col. James H. Tillman, former lieutenant governor of South Carolina, reproduced in an Asheville paper, Col. i Tillman has just given out a I rather interesting statement. J The special said he was there dying in poverty, and in the : course of his statement Tillman ' says: "Larkspur Cottage, Jan. 20. |: "In the Gazette-News of yes-1 < terday afternoon appeared a dispatch which compels my attention, though long ago I made it a ' T* 1110 fn uiv w igiiuic tuvcii newspaper 1 attacks. It would seem that de- i cency would force an honorable ' man to refrain from such as- 1 saults at least until I have re- 1 covered my health and then as in the past no quarter will be asked and none shown. i "Although the dispatch carried an Edgefield date line it was i never sent from that little city i for no one there is low and mean 1 enough to have done it. 1 "It was conceived in Columbia i and bears the familiar markings '* of the human vulture that has 1 long befouled that place. I know j it pains my friends to have it go i out to the world that they shun l me after having shown so much < loyalty and devotion, but to char- < acterize the author a liar would 1 be but to pay him a compliment. < Among the hundreds of letters 1 received from them since my 1 stay in Asheville, none is more ? gratifying than one from Gov- < ernor Blease, which I trust he ? will pardon me for quoting, in 1 which he says: 'Don't lose your nerve. Be what you have always < been, a brave man. Take cour- 1 age and win your fight. Get 1 well and come back home and be < here with me in my fight to re- < .deem South Carolina, * * * and < let's put her back on her high plane of citizenship.' He and 1 C i- ' uracil iui years nave neen spe- < rial targets of the newspaper < brigands in South Carolina. His * recent victory, however, in my I State shows what little influence < that press enjoys at the present1? time. * "I occupy a desirable cottage 1 in Albemarle park and have an t old family negro for a servant. 1 This statement that I am penni- 1 less is too ridiculous and absurd t to deserve notice. > "The Asheville climate has ' been of great benefit to me. I am under the skillful treatment ( of physicians. Friends who are \ ignorant of the situation are as- i sured that I am steadily improv- ' ing. The report that I am in a 1 dying condition 'is greatly exag- : 1 gerated,' as Mark Twain would 11 say, and what I would say is ; < rather too warm for print. " ? "James H. Tillman." ru '1 f* vauii I VsliaiI?C5. There's no telling what an hour will bring forth. Persons who sallied forth in the warm sunshine Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock thinking that the winter . was over and that it was about time to pack their heavy clothing in moth balls or cedar shavings and dig up the hot weather ones had another think coming before they got home. The weather man said it was going to snow or rain Sunday, but he missed it a mile. Nobody saw a drop of rain and one little boy whose daddy had agreed to make him a bob-sled the first time it snowed lost the sight of his other eye looking for even one flake of the white stuff that means wet feet and bigger wood bills. Things did come the way of the weather liar, however, when the cold j UT3VO K1 f tVlCk tAiifn ? 1 1 > ? v K1V vuv tl/tY II. VYILI11I1 1IVC I * minutes the temperature dropped r 15 degrees, which all agreed was I dropping some. c Commission Plan for Rock Hill. t A meeting of the governing r board of the Rock Hill chamber c of commerce was held a few days j J ago at which a resolution was a adopted indorsing a commission v form of government for Rock Hill. The secretary was directed to lay the matter before the t York delegation and have it c made possible, by legislation, for i the people to vote on the question. \ 1 / NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY OF THE DOINGS OF THE WEEK !i Corrospondenne Fort Mill Times. I ^ Columbia, Jan. 24.?The sec- t ond proclamation of Governor | T Blease, just issued, discharges j t all dispensary constables and de- j j tectives. This order takes effect s immediately. It was anticipated v by the Charleston constables, who v resigned last week. It is not r known in what manner the m governor will handle the illicit a liquor traffic, whether he will a place it in the hands of the c sheriffs and the police, or appoint 1 other contables. He has made ; r no statement. I Governor Blease's inaugural t address has been severely criti- i v cised locally by many for its t savage attack on the nress and ! f on those who differed from his , o political views. A prominent \ man, in discussing the message, f said: "I was in hopes that Mr. Blease would rise above the man I r and embrace his opportunity, but I o he has made a false start. He 11 should not have exhibited his s animus in his inaugural address; v he is now governor of all the i ^ people?not some, but all. An a inaugural address should be, c above all things, decorous, not a J mud-slinging tirade of the hust- ! r lings. It should be a document j e in which the incoming governor v gives his views on the theories af government and in which he outlines the policies of his administration. While some parts af the address were good, others * were inexpressibly bad. Still I v, hope that the governor will rise above what seem to be his preju- ^ iices and become in fact, as well ? as in name, the governor of all Lhe people." * Senator Carlisle's marriage li- * :ense bill passed the senate ^ Friday night after strenuous de- y pate. Senator Stewart, of York i :ounty, was one of the principal ; champions of the bill. It was ! a. ardered sent to the house. There is a great fight being I n put up by the Columbia chamber i f af commerce and Columbia mer- * ihants to have the national corn * show come to Columbia next v /ear. The show is to he held in " Columbus, Ohio, this year, from January 3 to February 12. A strong delegation will go to Coumbus to press Columbia's claim :o the corn show. They will >robably take Jerry Moore, the champion boy corn grower, with .hem. President Finley, of the Southern railway, has indorsed i Columbia for this show. If this show could be brought to Columbia it would mean much for South Carolina and for the South; t would concentrate the atten- j :ion of the nation on South Caroina, and bring many Western farmers here. It could not but redound to the agricultural and commercial benefit of the State md of the South. Last year at the national corn show there were 22,000 prizes ?iven, valued at $50,000. Over 100,000 people attended the show. W. J. C. i Mr Beamguard's Bill Killed. There was considerable debate j n the house of representatives 1 Wednesday over Mr. Beamguard's bill to provide for the egistry of chattel mortgages of :rops, and to fix the fee, rex)rted unfavorably by a majority )f the judiciary committee. The V"* i^l* 1 - ? ? iigoout c wiiu in i fMUi r i lit" Illlllg ?ee to 15c and make it a sufficient ecord for such documents, with>ut reference to the amount, to rnter upon an index kept for hat purpose, the "names of nortgagor and mortgagee, the tmount and character of the debt ;ecured" and a brief description >f the chattel pledged. Several nembers attacked the bill, sayng the record proposed would lot give sufficient protection. Mr. dcDow thought the bill a good me. He said it would save the armers perhaps as much as >50,000 a year. He did not hink any great inroads would be nade by the bill upon the income >f the 43 county clerks of court. Vn aye and nay vote was taken, ind by a vote of 68 to 46 the bill vas carried over. A negro tramp was killed and wo trainmen were injured in a rash of freight trains at Killans Monday night. The road was docked several hours. | t Boys Urged to Join Corn Clnb. In a letter to The Times, Prof. _j? A. Niven. of Winthrop college, vho is in charge of the organizaion of the boys' corn club of fork county, extends an in vitaion to the boys of Fort Mill to oin the club. "Last year." , ays Prof. Niven, "Fort Mill vas not represented at all, but ve are anxious for it to be well epresented this year. There , vill be about $300 in prizes given, nd any boy under 20 years of ige who can grow an acre of orn may contest for the prizes. I'he prizes are both money and nerchandise and they are given >y the business men of the couny. The Fort Mill business men j vill be called on to contribute to his fund. One of the Fort Mill >oys, of whom there were three r four at the club meeting at Vinthrop Saturday, won a prize or the best ten ears exhibited. "Any boy who sends in his ( lame on or before the first day >f March will be eligible to conest for the prizes." In concluion Prof. Niven urges the boys vho enter the contest to be in forkville at 11 o'clock on Februry 25, when the details of the ontest will be announced. The Times has been designated to reeceive and forward to Prof. Nivn the names of the boys who rish to contest for the prizes. Deaths in the Williamson Family. Death has cut a wide swath in he family of the late Mr. Lundus ' Villiamson, of Pineville, N. C., luring the last two years. Mr. ] Villiamson himself was the first f the family of six to die, in ' )ctober, 1909. In the spring of ' 910 the second member of the amily to pass away was a son of , Ir. Williamson, Grier, whose ' eath occurred about six months ' efore that of his mother, Mrs. ulia Williamson. Last week j nother son, Walker Williamson, ied at his home, a few miles 1 orth of Charlotte. The two erviving members of the family re Mrs. E. H. Hand and Miss j 'i,,.-., w:ii: i -i ~ .ma t?uiiaiiison, ootn 01 l'ine- t ille. i THE F Regarding the I The "Pure Shoe Law" w erts, Johnson & Rand Shoe "Star Brand" Shoes. All secure was brought to bear to get it passed in the Stat* sent samples of pure leathe substitutes for leather shoei turers, to the State Legislat for examination. After these efforts the R. ceeded in convincing the needed a "Pure Shoe Law,' the house. The fact that it k: i --i-** ?' n buuiutiicu political inriuen who use substitutes for lea of shoes. But the Roberts, Johns given up the fight for the 4 have sent copies of the of other States and have th introduced. Hon. Champ Clark, of M the manufacturers of "Star to introduce the "Pure Sh< Congress. "Star Brand She Mills & Yc Fort Mill agents for " PROGRESSIVES PLAN TICKET FOR CAMPAIGN NEXT YEAR A new organization, the Progressive Federation, has been formed and a movement launched by it to fight for popular control of the State and national conventions of the Democrats and Republicans next year, the object being to elect a progressive president. Backers of the federation are publicists and editors of progressive magazines. Their plan is to ask for pledges from the voters that they will attend all primary elections within their parties and vote only for delegates who stand committed to support the popular candidates for president. President Taft has been informed that there will be a third ticket in the field in the event of the nomination of Mr. Taft by the Republicans in 1912 and of Governor Harmon, of Ohio, by the Democrats. The third ticket will probably be headed by Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, and will appeal to the radical element in both parties. Credence is given to this report at the White House. All the actions of Mr. LaFollette for the last two years have indicated that the presidential bee has been within stinging distance of his head. He has maintained himself as the champion of radical legislation, has kept aloof from Mr. Taft and has rejected all the overtures made to bring him within the regular fold. LaFollette expects the votes of the Roosevelt enthusiasts and of a good proportion of the Republican insurgents, and also of many Democrats. He takes the view that Mr. Taft will not be acceptable to Republicans with advanced views on public questions. Also he believes that Judge Harmon can be successfully attacked as the friend of corporations. Prof. L. A. Robinson is to be succeeded as head of the Win:hrop training school by Dr. J. W. Fertig, of Summerville. ACTS I 'ure Shoe Bill. | as prepared by the Rob- I Co., makers of the famous the influence they could on the bill in their desire e of Missouri. The firm I r "Star Brand" Shoes, and j made by other manufacure at Jefferson City, Mo., ,, J. & R. Co. finally suesenate that this country but the bill was killed in was lost was due to the ce of the manufacturers ither in the manufacture w* a>uo liui 'Pure Shoe Law." They law to the Legislatures eir promise that it will be issouri, has, according to Brand" Shoes, promised >e Law" in the National >es Are Better." oung Co. Star Brand" Shoes.